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Echoing what’s already been said here but just voicing that the same is true for me. It feels people actually read and engage with my posts, and what I have to say won’t be drowned out by the masses.
Part of the reason I think it’s ok to have slight barrier to entry that the fediverse has in general.
Yes and no.
When I'm at my PC, yes I did become more active.
On mobile, I'm waiting for a better app like Relay and Sync to finally make Lemmy usable. Jerboa is barely-functional even with the latest update which finally added UI improvements, at the cost of making the app unusable with instances running on older versions of Lemmy and a slew of other glitches that make certain tabs unviewable.
Aye, folks here are a lot friendlier so tis easier to post!
I think it helps that the community vibe is completely different here. On some reddit subs your posts would get automatically removed for the most arbitrary reasons, and that really discouraged people from participating. Here I haven't encountered anything like that yet and most of the people that do participate have been super cool too.
Not really... yet. While I enjoy the memes and stuff I miss my smaller niche communities. While some subs the I was part of on reddit were created over here it seems that they are pretty dead and not even the creators/mods care about them. At the moment I don't have the time and energy to build something up from the ground... but I'm gonna stay and do my part!
It's nice because I always wondered what it was like being one of the early redditors (we've all seen those "when everything was better back in my days" comments), and it's as if I got chance at a magic Internet Reset button. Feeling that excitement that first got me into reddit, as I'm browsing and learning about the fediverse. Love it.
I've never really been a poster to be honest - not on reddit and not so far on lemmy - but I'm definitely mroe active with comments here. I'd like to make more posts but honestly I don't know I'm that great at creating OC. I think in my total of just over ten years on reddit, I maybe made four or five posts?
Not shouting into a tornado helps a great deal.
I spent years on Apollo and never even made an account, would just infinite scroll at work. Made an account on Lemmy and already feel like I’m more engaged
definitely, felling kinda social lately
I think smaller communities are more inviting. For me it's a combination of wanting Lemmy to succeed, now that Reddit has begun it's downward spiral, and feeling more involved in communities. Though I have only just created my account, so only time will tell if I continue to be active.
yeah people have mentioned already I've seen as a reason. This is because of active/hot, where on reddit the top comment was top because it was highest voted, there's something different going on with sorting here.
I lurked reddit for more than a decade and maybe posted 5 times. I hit that my first day here I think. Not sure what the difference is... I guess the smaller user base makes me feel like I can actually engage in a conversation with someone rather than just have my post disappear into the thousands already on a post
Definitely replying more instead of just lurking.
I’m thinking it’s a combination of
Absolutely, I feel closer to the community here on lemmy.
Gotta help seed the content so newcomers have something to look at. I've been uploading game clips and the like to the relevant ~~subreddits~~ communities (wow, I really just did make this mistake without thinking and only went back to correct it minutes later; shows how used I am to the old place) to help build the initial content base.
That, and the place genuinely does seem just a bit friendlier than Reddit. That may change when the number of users gets bigger, but I'm at least enjoying it for now.
I try, but then usually give up when it fails to submit 3 times
Try making an account on another server, maybe one of the smaller ones. My first was on lemmy.world, but on this new account on aussie.zone everything is loading much faster and I'm having no issues when it comes to commenting.
I really like the default active sorting keeping discussions in older threads alive for longer. The comment sorting also makes it easier to join discussions later on :)
i feel less desire to troll here. Just feels mean and horrible.
I think I've posted more comments on Lemmy than I ever did on Reddit. And I joined Reddit back around 2010.
I had Reddit for almost 10 years, yet in the <1 month that I've started using alternatives I've already posted/commented more. Not sure why it it feels more enjoyable engaging in discusison on the Reddit alternatives, but it's probably the lower user levels creating a nicer environment.
We all should. That's how we turn this platform successful over reddit. I've also noticed communities don't suck as much (for now), I could be wrong but I don't seem to see so much toxicity like I do on reddit nowadays
Reddit mods censored a lot of content both posts and comments. That was part of the reason reddit was not a positive experience and became a echo chamber. Lemmy appears to be more like the old internet where there were a diverse community of ideas and views.
Was a lurker on most subreddits, a lot of things I wanted to comment likely had been said so I would just upvote them. Whilst right now (still getting my head round the instances), I feel more inclined to comment when there are low comment volumes.
I think actually feeling like you are being seen is a big factor for me. I felt buried in Reddit and so far this community just feels right. I really do hope it stays that way.
I am more of a sarcastic commenter. Made a couple of posts though. However, I am upvoting a lot more stuff here as I never really upvoted posts on that other site that hates 3rd party stuff. I want to make sure this stuff actually works and people don’t go crawling back to that site that makes you Spez out.